TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE OF THE 'WABEL' WEBSITE

The "Wabel" website, accessible at the address www.wabel.com (hereinafter the "Wabel Website"), is published by the company Wabel, a société par actions simplifiées [simplified corporation] registered with the Paris Registry of Commerce and Companies under number 521 214 262, having its principal office at 27-33 avenue des Champs-Elysées, 75008 Paris, and a share capital of 205.844€, represented by its President Mr. Pierre Asseo (hereinafter "Wabel").

Use of the Wabel Website shall be conditional upon full and unqualified acceptance of these terms and conditions of use (hereinafter the "T&C") defining the relation between the Web users (hereinafter "you") and Wabel.
Wabel reserves the right to amend these T&C at any time without notice or indemnification of any kind whatsoever.

PREAMBLE

Wabel, created in 2010, is an independent company, the purpose of which is to bring together professionals of large-scale retailing (suppliers, importers, distributors and service providers) from all geographical areas, in order to create among them opportunities for collaboration both domestic and international, with a view to developing retailer own-brand products (OBP), and to provide them with value-added information (market surveys, store checks, best practices, industry news, etc.).
The Wabel Website is a global professional social network, available in several languages and dedicated to own-brand products. The Wabel Website enables producers and importers to present and put forward their products and to identify new customers, retailers to issue tenders and identify new suppliers, and service providers to offer their ranges, and all subscribers to meet during private sourcing days organized for distributors (hereinafter the "Wabel Meetings") and at trade conventions (hereinafter the "Wabel Summits").
These T&C set out the various functionalities of the Wabel Website and shall govern the relations between its users and the Wabel company.

1. SUBSCRIPTIONS

The various services offered by Wabel are usually accessible only to subscribers. You may access the subscription which is best suited to your needs and operations by clicking here.
The price for the subscription is the price in force on the date of subscription. The applicable price lists are available at the address www.wabel.com/tarifs

2. WABEL ACCOUNT

Creating a Wabel Account is recommended in order to reap the full benefit of the service provided by Wabel, i.e., to present products if you are a producer or importer, to select products or issue requests if you are a distributor, and to present your offers if you are a service provider, and to have access to the value-added information.
Any user of the Wabel Website, whether or not a subscriber, may create a Wabel Account, subject to validation by Wabel. In order to create that account, you will be required to identify yourself as a producer, importer, distributor or service provider. You will also be required to disclose certain data of a personal nature which are essential in order to identify you, i.e., mainly, your name and forename, your professional contact information (postal address, telephone numbers, e-mail), and the corporate name of your company.
Wabel will not disclose your personal data to third parties, unless you expressly so agree, in accordance with the terms of the section "Computers and Civil Liberties" below.
Wabel reserves the right to suspend and/or close your Wabel Account at its discretion if your electronic address ceases to be valid, if you fail to provide all the information required, or if you provide information that is inaccurate or obsolete, or inconsistent with the rules of ethics defined under the section "User content" below.
You may terminate your Wabel Account at any time by using the appropriate function available on the Website. If you are a subscriber, the Wabel Account must be maintained throughout the duration of the subscription in order to obtain the related full benefit.

3. CREATION OF YOUR PERSONAL SPACE

Regardless of the category in which you register on the Wabel Website (producer, importer, distributor or service provider), you may, whether or not you are a subscriber, create a personal space (hereinafter the "Profile") enabling you to enter the products you market, to add products to your catalog or your search criteria, or to find professionals, events or surveys of interest to you.
Producers and importers may accordingly present their areas of operation, their flagship products, and their key figures (geographical source, revenues, number of employees, etc.), their teams and the addresses of their websites. Service providers may present their offers and price lists.
You have the option of determining the visibility of the information you enter (for instance, so that it can be consulted by a certain class of professionals and not by another).
The other users of the Wabel Website may contact you simply by clicking on a button accessible from your Profile sheet, and if applicable, request a meeting at the trade fairs organized by Wabel in accordance with the section "Wabel Meetings and Wabel Summits".

4. PRODUCT AND SERVICE SHEETS

Your presence on the Wabel Website enables you to be visible to professionals who could become your leading commercial partners. If you are a manufacturer or importer, it is particularly useful to present your products by means of sheets containing one or more photographs of the product, information relating to the manufacturer, a description of the product, its contents, its packaging, etc. If you are a service provider, you can also present your offers.
The Wabel Website enables other users to ask you questions directly through the product-sheet interface.
The products or services you enter on the Wabel Website will be included in a database belonging to Wabel, which can be queried through a search engine using an optimized filtering system (category, geography, type, novelty, etc.).

5. CONSULTATIONS AND TENDERS ("Source Requests")

If you are a distributor, you can issue Sourcing Requests that manufacturers and importers can answer. In order to do so, you have only to enter the kind of product you are seeking, specifying the features required.
You are then provided with a comprehensive view of the manufacturers and importers deciding to answer your request. You can also correspond with them directly, through the interface of the Wabel Website.
You have the option of conducting those consultations in public mode, i.e., they will be visible to all manufacturers or importers, or in private mode, i.e., visible only to the users you have decided to invite to take part.

6. BUSINESS DEALS

If you find a new partner through the Wabel Website, you are naturally at liberty to enter into a business deal with the latter, by any means whatsoever.
The Wabel Website provides you with an opportunity to find new outlets for your products if you are an importer or distributor, or to enter into new business relationships if you are a distributor or service provider.
Wabel's job is to facilitate contact, but it remains outside those relations in all cases and is never committed on any basis whatsoever.

7. DISCLAIMER

Wabel's role is solely to set up a professional social-networking website intended to provide any player in large-scale retailing so desiring with an opportunity to offer its products or services, to issue consultations (or "Sourcing Requests") and generally, to enter into business relationships.
Wabel naturally does not warrant the outcome of connections made through the Wabel Website, nor the successful completion of business negotiations, nor the outcome of your Sourcing Requests or any other contact it is intended to assist.
You are in sole control of the successful completion of your projects.
Wabel is a technical service provider offering tools to allow the creation of product sheets and identification notices for professionals, and putting in touch users of the Wabel Website. Wabel is a hosting provider (prestataire d'hébergement) as defined by Article 6.1.2 of the French Act on Trust in the Digital Economy dated June 21, 2004.
Accordingly, Wabel shall bear no obligation to review or supervise the product sheets or Profile sheets of the professionals using the Wabel Website, or more generally, any user content. Wabel shall bear no liability for the content posted on the Wabel Website by the users of that Website. Wabel is unable to warrant, in particular, the accuracy of the information entered by the professionals in connection with the products and services they offer, or the accuracy of the business information, which they are solely responsible for posting.
The users of the Wabel Website are accordingly solely accountable for the information they elect to enter and put on line.
Wabel shall bear no liability in any event to make reparation for any direct or indirect damage suffered in connection with use of the Wabel Website, the dissemination of information relating to products, services or companies on the Wabel Website, the creation of a sourcing request or any other user content, including operating losses and business losses, and more generally, any damage that is not due solely and directly to Wabel's default.

8. USER CONTENT

The users of the Wabel Website agree not to post any content that could infringe the rights of Wabel or a third party, and in particular any defamatory or offensive materials, or materials infringing the intellectual-property rights of Wabel or any third party.
The users agree, in particular, to abstain from any untrue or misleading information.

9. LIMITED WARRANTY

You expressly acknowledge and agree that the Wabel Website is offered to you "as-is".
Accordingly, without limitation, Wabel does not warrant that the identities and contact information of the users of the Wabel Website are correct: they are those that are entered by those users when creating their Wabel Accounts, and it is up to them to update that information whenever necessary.
Wabel does not warrant either that the presentation of products or services or the issuance of a sourcing request will allow the generation of any business opportunity whatsoever. The issuance of a sourcing request shall be carried out under the sole responsibility of its organizer.
Wabel does not warrant that operation of the Wabel Website will be uninterrupted and makes no commitment in that respect, except as provided for under the section "Suspension of the Website".

10. WABEL MEETINGS AND WABEL SUMMITS

Wabel organizes on a regular basis private meetings in person, enabling users of the Wabel Website to meet and present their products and services in concrete fashion to other users of the Website ("Wabel Meetings"). Wabel also organizes trade conventions on a regular basis ("Wabel Summits").
Such Wabel Meetings and Wabel Summits shall be governed by specific terms and conditions, for which users of the Wabel Website will be required to grant prior acceptance in order to take part.
Wabel reserves the right to accept or refuse at its discretion any attendance at Wabel Meetings and/or Wabel Summits, and shall not be required to provide justification.

11. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Use of the Wabel Website shall not confer on you any intellectual-property right relating to any element of the Website whatsoever, whether the content and tools created and/or made available to you by Wabel and which shall remain its property, or the proprietary materials of third parties (text, images, videos, trademarks, patents and designs, databases, etc.) which shall remain the property of their respective owners.
Use of the Wabel Website is reserved for your business operation, but no provision of these T&C shall permit you to use that Website for purposes other than as provided for hereunder.
The Wabel Website is protected by copyright and furthermore, is a database of which Wabel is the producer, within the meaning of Article L. 341-1 of the French Code of Intellectual Property.
As such, Wabel has all the proprietary rights of a producer over all the contents of such base.
Accordingly, the users may not:
* extract, by means of a permanent or temporary transfer, all or any part, substantial in terms of quality or quantity, of the contents of the Wabel Website, on any medium, by any means and in any form whatsoever;
* reuse, by making it available to the public, all or any part, substantial in terms of quality or quantity, of the contents of the Wabel Website, in any form whatsoever;
* reuse or extract, repeatedly and systematically, any parts, not substantial in terms of quality or quantity, of the Wabel Website, if such operations manifestly exceed the conditions of reasonable use of the Website.
Accordingly, any use of the Wabel Website other than as permitted under these T&C and the French Code of Intellectual Property shall require express prior consent in writing from Wabel.

12. DATA PROCESSING & CIVIL LIBERTIES

The information of a personal nature collected through the Wabel Website is subject to computerized processing, under the responsibility of the Wabel company.
Such processing is implemented in order to provide you with the services accessible through the Wabel Website.
The data of a personal nature that you enter are forwarded to other users of the Wabel Website through your Profile, in order to enable them, if applicable, to discover your products or services and to approach you. Only the data you have agreed to enter in your Wabel Account will be disclosed to the other users of the Wabel Website.
You have the option of restricting the access to the data of a personal nature that you provide, by means of the confidentiality tools made available to you on the Wabel Website. It is accordingly up to you alone to select the information you choose to disclose to third parties.
In accordance with the French "Computers and Civil Liberties" Act of January 6, 1978, & the regulation on data protection in the EU, 'General Data Protection Regulation' of May 25, 2018, you have a right to access, correct, amend and remove at any time data of a personal nature relating to you and which are incorrect, incomplete, ambiguous or obsolete following our Privacy Policy. Simply do the above by addressing us an e-mail at privacy@wabel.com
You also have a right to object, with due cause, to the processing of data of a personal nature relating to you. Such objection, however, will make use of the Wabel Website impossible, and in particular the presentation of your products and services or the issuance of sourcing requests.
You may exercise these rights by postal mail accompanied by proof of identity, at the following address: Wabel, Informatique et Libertés, 25 rue Tronchet, 75008 Paris.
Wabel shall not sell your personal data to business partners without your prior and express consent, which you may grant us at the time of creation of your Wabel Account.

13. SUSPENSION OF THE WEBSITE

Wabel shall use its best efforts to maintain the quality of its services and for that purpose, shall perform on a regular basis remedial-maintenance or enhancement operations on the Wabel Website.
During such operations, access to the Wabel Website may be more difficult or impossible.
Wabel shall bear no liability for any damage whatsoever that may be caused by such suspensions.
Wabel shall not be bound in any event to allow access to the Wabel Website in case of force majeure, which shall mean, in accordance with the French case-law, any unforeseeable and irresistible event outside its control, such as strike, adverse weather, embargo, failure of power supply or internet network, malfunction of satellites, or breach of their obligations by internet service providers.

14. ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Navigation of the Wabel Website shall imply your acceptance of these T&C in full. If you do not accept them, do not navigate the Wabel Website.

15. STATUTORY MENTIONS

The Website is published by the company Wabel, a société par actions simplifiée registered with the Paris Registry of Commerce and Companies under number 521 214 262, having its principal office at 25 rue Tronchet, 75008 Paris. The Website is hosted by the company OHV.
The chief editor of the Website is Mr. Pierre Asseo.

16. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

These T&C shall be governed by French law.
Any dispute relating to these T&C shall be subject to the sole jurisdiction of the Paris Commercial Court, including in the event of third-party claim, plurality of defendants, impleader or summary proceedings.